No, not the olive oil of Judea and Samaria and, perhaps, a labeling or boycott. This : From 1 January 2014, restaurants and cafes will be banned from serving oil to diners in small glass jugs or dipping bowls. Instead, the oil will need to be served in pre-sealed, non-refillable bottles that must be disposed of when empty. Read More »
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My thoughts, assertions and observations on issues important to me as a Jew, a Zionist, a Revenant in Yesha and as an inquisitive human being.
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No Mother?
A grandson has been born to the Admor of Toldos Avraham Yitzhak (Shomrei Emunim/1996), Shmuel Yaakov Kahan, and the birth announcement notes that that grandson is the son of … his son-in-law, Yehiel Yehoshua Rabinowitz, the son of the Bialeh Rebbe (but of which one , I do not know) : And his daughter? The child’s mother? Of her, no mention. Read More »
It Works The Other Way, Too
Your read this ? The woman who heckled President Barack Obama during his speech at the National Defense University on Thursday gained access to the closed event by saying she was a member of the press, the university said. Read More »
Learning from the US
I thought this should be studied on the backgrounds of the controversy of requiring Nir Allon to permit a more assertive response to Arab violence on the roads here in Yesha. Read More »
He Ain’t Getting Into France
Israel recently detained him, previously arrested him, and has banned him from the Temple Mount. He’s Akrima/Ikrima Sabri. Nasty fellow . Really bad news . He confirms death sentences . A denial of history . And now, France is getting with it. Read More »
Someone Has A Sense of Jewish Humor
Recent Posts Belz Dynastic Heir Marries Bride’s Sister, Mistake Cannabis Lab Found in Haredi Girls School Israeli PM: $127k Bed Included Other Perks Haredim Attack Women, Uphold “Local Custom” Stephen Hawking to Boycott Physics, Israeli Arabs France Read More »
What Was On Storrs’ Mind On the Temple Mount
Colonel Sir Ronald Storrs watching m en of the 1st Egyptian Infantry Battalion ascending the steps leading to the Mosque of Omar on 12 April 1918. Storrs was Military Governor of Jerusalem from 1917-1920 and District Commissioner of Jerusalem from 1920-1926. Read More »
Why Is President Peres Playing at Diplomacy?
I received this notice from President Shimon Peres’ office: Jerusalem, 23 May 2013 President Peres held a diplomatic meeting this evening with US Secretary of State John Kerry President Shimon Peres, this afternoon (Thursday, 23 May 2013), held a Read More »
They, Too, Targeted a Gaza Mosque?
Remember the bewailing of Israel targeting of mosques during the last two Gaza campaigns against Hamas terror? This picture of the IWM is captioned: November 1917 The Third Battle of Gaza: The ruined interior of the Mosque in Gaza. Read More »
What Separates the Men From the Women
In the UK’s Daily Mail account of the Belz wedding, a paper which usually portrays the ups … and downs of fashion, what people are wearing and aren’t wearing, this caught my eye as, well, typical for such a paper: All the male guests dressed in Read More »
Pictures From the Qanta Ahemd Lecture
The event with Qanta Ahmed was interesting, even riveting. Pictures: Photo credits: Top two – YMedadBottom three: RH^ Read More »
Lolita and Her Jew
Here , on The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov by Andrea Pitzer : …this book forces one to consider several fascinating quandaries presented by Lolita … The first of these is: Is Humbert Humbert Jewish? The word “Jew” and its cognates never occur in Lolita , but it is almost said on a number of occasions. Read More »
The Zohar and the Colors of “Palestine”
From the Zohar, I, 15A, describing the primordial phase of the initiation of creation: בריש (נ”א, בראשית בחכמתא דמלכא גליף וכו’) הורמנותא דמלכא גליף גלופי (נ”א, גליפו) בטהירו עלאה בוצינא דקרדינותא ונפיק גו סתים דסתימו מרישא (נ”א, מרזא) דאין סוף קוטרא (פי’ עשן) בגולמא נעיץ בעזקא לא חוור ולא אוכם לא סומק ולא ירוק ולאו גוון כלל ” BREISHITH . Read More »
Mother Rachel Is Hot
The Matriarch Rachel in Bethlehem , that is: Over the past three months, some 200 firebombs and 80 explosive devices have been thrown at worshippers and Israeli soldiers at Rachel’s Tomb on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Read More »
Shlomi the Schlemiel
Here is Shlomi Eldar on the A-Durrah report: I am not arguing that there was no need to investigate the killing of the 12-year-old boy who became a symbol of the second intifada. The problem is the timing. It should not be done now, 13 years later. Read More »
AB Yehoshua Goes Liberationist Ideology
The Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood called this “elegant”. Me? Reconstructionist narrative with twisted liberationist theology, I’d say. It’s AB Yehoshua’s latest: Defining Zionism: The belief that Israel belongs to the entire Jewish people Some excerpts and my comments: – definition… Read More »
Sweep Those Lands Swaps Away
Dani Dayan has an op-ed in today’s Haaretz. Take land swaps off the table The lead-in: The territorial exchanges Israel once offered the Palestinians in return for peace were never obligatory and are no longer practical. Read More »
Meet a Pal. Professor
I learned from here that Prof. Mustafa Kabaha , Department of History and Philosophy at the Quds Open University [his Ph.D. Read More »
You Can Turn Around and Go Back Home, Sec’y Kerry
He has spoken: Sheikh Dr. Ikrima Sabri, head of the Supreme Islamic Council and the Al Aqsa Mosque preacher, issued a Fatwa prohibiting Land Swaps with the occupation which was recently accepted by the PA and the Arab league. Read More »
Here Come the Rough Riders
An amazing video of the inauguration of the Shiloh Bloc terrain bicycle (or, tout terrain or mountain cycling or rough riding) route last week. Read More »
Being Jewish Is The Problem
Did you know that In Saudi Arabia , the public practice of any religion other than Islam is prohibited, and the government enforced restrictions on religious freedom. Read More »
UNESCO Denied
Two weeks ago, I expressed reservations over Israel’s government’s decision to agree to having UNESCO involved in Jerusalem and specifically the Temple Mount. Read More »
Obama Against Anat Kam
If US President Barack Obama, the darling of progressives, said : press freedoms must be balanced against the protection of U.S. Read More »
Low-Intensity Conflict Security Report #78
Low-Intensity Conflict Security Report #78 These reports are translated and publicized by Yehudit Tayar for Hatzalah Yehudah and Shomron with the clearance and confirmation of the IDF. Read More »
Your US Tax Dollars Are Funding BDS
Over the years, I have posted several blogs critical of the policy of the American Consulate-General in Jerusalem in supporting, exclusively Arab-oriented activities such as student grants, workshops, sports, artistic, cultural, musical programs, exhibitions, and much more. Read More »
Another Pal. Pallywood Prevarication
Last Tuesday, I caught out our neighbors prevaricating about a supposed fire we set that destroyed Arab trees and crops. It was all a lie . And now they are doing it again, or at least, trying to do so. Don’t believe them. Read More »
Weaving for the Temple
Women are invited to Tel Shiloh this Wednesday for a workshop intriduction to weaving and a lecture on linen. Natural cheeses on sale, too. Read More »
Take 7 And Watch This
The trailer for “Above and Beyond” on the Machal volunteers and the beginning of the Israel Air Force. Read More »
The UN Denies Itself
A PMW Bulletin claims, correctly, that we witness a False claim by UNRWA in response to PMW report: Map without Israel that official posed with does not represent today but “pre-1948″ Palestine (The pictures broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV are Read More »
Come Hear Qanta Ahmed
I will be greeting Professor Qanta Ahmed author of In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom who will be speaking at the Begin Center symposium on Radicalization and Purging of Minorities in the Middle East: How Should the West Respond? Response: Dr. Read More »
Bicycle Around Shiloh
On Friday, 400 bicyclists inaugurated a new terrain bicycle track around Shiloh: Avital Sela Yoav Lavi^ Read More »
What A Little Access Can Do
First, Dozens of Palestinians in Jerusalem protested Friday after Israel granted access to right-wingers at the al-Aqsa compound .Protesters raised Palestinian flags and chanted for the protection of al-Aqsa in a rally in the Old City. Read More »
Eating Your Heart Out
We all read the heart-rendering news : A graphic video allegedly showing a Syrian rebel cutting open a pro-government fighter’s chest and biting into one of his internal organs sparked outrage Tuesday, reviving concerns about the makeup of opposition forces even as the United States warned that it is ready to bolster its support for them… Read More »
I’ve Been Included
My wife has included a post of mine in her Jewish Blog Round Up, Let’s Link Up Together I am honored. ^ Read More »
Do You Oppose The Death Penalty?
If so, what have you do or what are you doing or what will you do about this, as reported by the UN’s OCHA Protection of Civilians Weekly Report | 7 – 13 May 2013 : On 9 May, a military court in Gaza sentenced a 48 year-old civilian man to death by hanging, allegedly for collaborating with what the court described as a “hostile element”. Read More »
There Sit the Muslims; There Go the Jews
The reality on the Temple Mount: The Muslims sit, try to restrict movement and limit access by taking up space, engage in study of Islamic literary sources (what they call “terrace sciences”) and are on call to provoke, claiming faking insult or Read More »
Reconfirmation of Worth of Polls
From Dr. Lerner , as I have stressed here over the years (here’s 2007 ), on what the polls taken here on peace, negotiations, Jewish communities in YESHA and security, what I term the Great Dichotomy or just plain schizophrenia : So Israelis would Read More »
Hamas: No “Two-State Solution”
As relayed : Khaled Mashaal, head of the political bureau of Hamas movement, confirmed his movement’s adherence to resistance in confronting the occupation and liberating Palestine. Read More »
A Double Mazal Tov
Mazal Tov to Geula Even and Gideon Sa’ar on their wedding last night. And what appears to me an upcoming birth: Geula is an IBA TV show host and interviewer. Gideon is Minister of the Interior. Hadar Cohen snapped the picture. Read More »
So, J Street Really is Pro-Israel, Just Not Kosher
Adam Kredo claims that J Street, in hosting a dinner at a Chinese restaurant on Jewish holy day, committed a A Shavuot Faux Pas and that Jewish Democrats are upset with the liberal fringe group The essence: J Street, a far left advocacy group that Read More »
All You Have to Do is Threaten Violence
For the Muslims, it’s simple: threaten violence. Provoke violence. Scream and yell, and throw chairs and chant. And what happens? The police capitulate. And the courts declare, “it’s too sensitive a matter for the law”. Read More »
Peace Now’s Slapping Israel Around
From this report : In a reply to a Supreme Court petition by the Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now, the government said it had taken steps in recent weeks to authorize retroactively four West Bank outposts built without official permission. Read More »
Inspired by the Women of the Wall
Inspired by Women of the Wall, a new organization is launching to advocate gender equality in Jewish public ritual life. Men of the Mikvah will go to local mikvaot around the country each month to be balaniot. It’s time for a more, um, supportive balanit . No, no mikveh life guard positions are open.As yet. Read More »
The Children’s Ascent to Temple Mount Thwarted
Following up on my earlier report , some 100 children who planned to tour the Temple Mount this morning were denied entrance. Police closed the Mount to all non-Muslims. Pictures: And now the JPost report : Jerusalem Police on Thursday closed the Temple Mount to visitors due to the sensitivity created in recent days. Read More »
Another Temple Mount Photoshop
BREAKING UPDATE The Temple Mount was closed this morning to all non-Muslims on order from the Jerusalem Police Chief and we can only surmise that the Muslim threats worked. Read More »
This Is NOT An Islamophobic Post
This Is NOT An Islamophobic Post. It’s just funny. Mohammed Ahmed, a 21-year-old of Illonois, was arrested in Florida. He …answered an online ad posted by an undercover detective posing as a hooker…Ahmed was arrested when he arrived for his paid liaison. Read More »
A Basic Problem
From this article : The basic problem is that, for the last two generations, it has been Palestinian policy to teach their children, and anyone that will listen to these Arab language screeds that Israel has no right to exist. Read More »